Spreading the Sabbath Truth
THE agitation of the Sabbath question, growing out of the publication of the “Open Letter” to the ministers of Washington, is still being continued. In its issue of April 1 The Pathfinder, a weekly paper published in this city, has what it calls “a symposium of arguments, pro and con, on the interesting question whether Sunday is the true Sabbath.” In favor of the seventh-day Sabbath it gives “the main points advanced on this side of the question as gleaned from voluminous articles in the Washington Post by Seventh-day Adventist ministers, and from other sources.” It then prints quite full extracts from the “Appeal to Clergy.” As upholding the Sunday institution it quotes a large portion of Bishop Satterlee’s reply to the “Open Letter,” and brief extracts from other writers. In its editorial on the subject the Pathfinder says: “According to the Old Testament and the commandments, the Seventh-day Adventists and others who contend that Saturday is the Sabbath clearly have the butt of the argument, and it is hard to see how any one who believes in the infallibility of the verbal text of the Bible can justify the substitution of Sunday.” In the face of this admission, however, it proceeds to argue in favor of the present custom of Sunday-keeping, employing some of the usual inconsequential arguments, and closing with the suggestion that Adventists and Jews should take a trip around the world, journeying westward, in order to come into harmony with Sunday-keepers. Thus the question of the true Sabbath is brought to the attention of many who may not have seriously thought upon the matter, and honest seekers after the truth will note the difference between the plain testimony of the Scriptures and human speculation. We have evidently reached the time when all the people must be brought face to face with the Sabbath issue; and the Lord is employing many agencies to accomplish this result.